Posted on 12/02/2014 1:35:05 PM PST by Eleutheria5
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed the nation on Tuesday night shortly after 8 p.m., less than two hours after firing coalition members Finance Minister Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni (Hatnua), effectively disbanding the government.
"I turn to you tonight because in the current situation, in the current government, it is impossible to lead the nation," said Netanyahu, saying the impasse is preventing him from fulfilling his role as prime minister.
While Netanyahu called it "one of the best governments, one of the most stable governments in the history of Israel," adding it was "a true unity government, and a government that did a lot," pressing the accomplishments of his coalition, he added "I must tell you that in the current government it is much more difficult to do things for the public."
He claimed he led Operation Protective Edge "with cold considerations" of public welfare, but said in the current government it is much harder to do other things needed for security.
Netanyahu began his speech by essentially firing the first shot of the election campaign, telling voters who wanted a strong government to vote Likud, noting that the formation of the government was determined "because the party under my leadership, the Likud, didn't get enough mandates...so there were in the government contrasting angles."
That comment was clearly aimed at his right-wing opponents Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) and Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu).
The government had three core points according to Netanyahu: first to manage a strong policy against Iran's nuclear program, demanding that the Palestinian Authority (PA) recognize Israel as the Jewish state, and continue building in Jerusalem - a point that may strike some as odd given his current informal months-long freeze on construction in eastern Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria.
Lapid and Livni undermined each.....
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Good riddance to Netanyahu too, hopefully. Would much rather see a real Zionist like Bennett or Feiglin as PM than a weak ZINO like Bibi.
How would he function without leftists in key positions to do his dirty work? Ehud won’t be tearing down any outposts. Tzipi won’t be surrendering to Abbas. He’d either have to do that stuff himself with no one to hide behind, or actually act as a right-wing PM. But hope and expectations often conflict. It’ll probably be more Bibi. Will Yuval Hamvulbal be his next pet leftist?
If a coup fails, did you Screw the Putsch ;?
BiBi will win, but I agree I would rather have a real conservative hard line nationalist.
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